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Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp

0 posted 2000-05-12 09:02 AM


Yes I’m a bachelor
That means I live alone,
The maids out all the time
and no ones home.

I cook well enough
I fancy myself a chef
But I’m getting older now
My ears ring all the time
I think I’m going deaf.

The reason I’m telling all this,
is because no ones home,
I almost died yesterday
no one to phone.

I drive truck in the mornings
making food deliveries
for the schools
country roads all day long
blind curves dodging fools.

Rounding a blind curve
yesterday, the road was blocked.
The gas tanker before me
had one hell of a shock.

He hit the breaks first
I didn’t know what was happening
I started sliding, as he jackknifed
in front, we looked like a big “T”
with me as the stem, I was crapping.

As this big tanker started jumping
five feet in front of me,
there was nowhere to go
on the side was nothing but trees.

Just telling yu’all,
I thought someone should know.
sense no ones home here
you are my dog I pet, the fish I feed
the love I come home to.
I almost bowed out of this big show.
Yesterday.
Joel.


 I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

© Copyright 2000 Joel. - All Rights Reserved
Scarlet Lady
Member
since 2000-02-11
Posts 242
Midwest
1 posted 2000-05-12 09:37 AM


Joel....are you ok?  I was really freaked out when I read this.  And hey....you know you cannot go anywhere...we need you here!  Made me think about the recent poetry,  and  the sudden urge to contemplate death......kind of spooky.  Well at least you are still here with us.  We care!  Take care of yourself....and enjoy life.  
sgreybe
Member
since 2000-04-28
Posts 209
London, UK
2 posted 2000-05-12 09:46 AM


Dear Joel my buddy

Got quite a fright when I read this, I hope you are okay.  Talk to me if you need to.  I appreciate being able to share the experience.  Be strong my friend, we're here for you.  WE (I) need you here.  

Sylvia

Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
3 posted 2000-05-12 09:53 AM


Thank you ladies and yes I'm ok, it was close, too close.
I had been the object of an snipers love at one time and felt the bullet cut a path close to my ear, the after shock is more adrenaline rush than you could believe, will I heard the bullet and that isn't bad if you hear it, that means you still alive, w
l the tanker was closer than that.
not much makes me shake, but this did. haha


 I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

Danny Holloway
Member Elite
since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034
Tulsa, OK
4 posted 2000-05-12 03:12 PM


Scarey story for sure.  One never knows what fate awaits round the next curve.  Glad you had an angel on your shoulder.
~~nice writing~~ and thanks for your response to my poetry.


 A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.


G. A. Webb
Member
since 2000-01-21
Posts 441
Stanton, California, USA
5 posted 2000-05-12 03:31 PM


WOW! That must have been too close for comfort. But if you look at the bright side, had you hit the truck, you would have gone out with a BANG!...LOL...Thank God you didn't! Glad to hear that you're Ok. Great piece, thank you for sharing it.  

 Regret not that which you have done,
Rather that which you haven't


SpitFire
Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396

6 posted 2000-05-12 04:42 PM


~Joel,...(((HUG)))..oh no...you ok?  Gosh don't scare me like that.  EVER. K?  So so so glad that you are here right now,..hell,.I don't know what I'd do.     *Sigh*  Write me.
Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
7 posted 2000-05-12 06:44 PM


Joel (Dad) how scary for me to read this!!   It is sad no one would've known, I would've missed you in a day or so, but never gotten an answer!!  Glad it didn't happen hon.  God was with you that day obviously, see, he does have a plan for you!!! *hugs*  Glad you are ok my Daddy  
Love ya
isis

 At last I have heard the song of enlightenment.... In your heart you can hear it now, if you listen....
It is the song your spirit has been singing since the moment of your birth. All lasting victories are won in the heart....
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)


Songbird
Member Elite
since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184
Missouri
8 posted 2000-05-12 10:24 PM


I am glad you are still with us, you know you would be missed around here. We are all here but by the grace of God. Never know what is around the corner, so to speak, I have had close calls too and it sure is a humbling feeling.
Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
9 posted 2000-05-12 11:01 PM


Dan, that Angel has been with me a long time. thanks.

G. A. yea it would have been a big one, although not the way I'd want to go, I don't like the heat, Besides sliding into the side of a tanker is slow, haha to slow for me. haha.

Hey Spit. haha when you going to yell at me about your short name. haha
well kid I tell you life would go on.
and yours will be happy one I just know.
love ya.

Well Isis my   .com child haha.
yes God did have a plan, but I've always believed that God is a woman, and she can damn well change her mind in mid sentence. hahaha (Don't take offense.) haha
Thank you. for the concern.


And Stepsong, I hope you see what I told Isis. haha
But AHHH the mysteries of God, she can get shook up on the littlest things, I guess I did too many God jokes, But I thought she had a sense of humor, she did make the mosquito
love you all.
Joel.




 I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
10 posted 2000-05-15 08:17 AM


Glad you're O.K. Joel and yes its true you have friends at Passions but I just hope and pray you'll find someone special thats close to home that will miss you if your gone...but you ain't going any where for a while so you could just spend some time loving and caring for each other.   James
sheba57
Member
since 1999-06-27
Posts 64
vincennes, in usa
11 posted 2000-05-16 12:11 PM


hi joel,

really nice piece.  i want to thank you here for your kind words for a couple of my pieces  (and i will thank you there as well).  i, too, believe that alpha e is a woman, and as we know, women can run hot and then cold.  just wasn't your time yet, so there's some business for you to complete.  and apparently you would be missed here.  thanks for the nice welcome.

as ever - sheba

sKiTtLeS
Member
since 2000-04-12
Posts 113
wisconsin, u.s.a.
12 posted 2000-05-16 01:19 PM


Dearest Joel,
What a terrible loss you would have been! Thank God nothing serious happened to you.  
This Passions family would never be the same, that's for sure.

love,

 sKiTtLeS~

Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
13 posted 2000-05-16 07:24 PM


Maybe you didn't die for the Goddess herself watches over you!! LOL

 At last I have heard the song of enlightenment.... In your heart you can hear it now, if you listen....
It is the song your spirit has been singing since the moment of your birth. All lasting victories are won in the heart....
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)


Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
14 posted 2000-05-16 07:58 PM


James how true I hope this is, is it a foreseeable future?? are you reading something?. haha if so great.

Sheba, I've always liked that name.
Yes the hot and cold how well I know this. haha, if God is anything like the women on earth, then excuse the pun God help us. haha

sKiTtLeS, haha I've miss you where the hell have you been?? The Passions family, or you?
haha.
I hope to see more of you kid.

Isis, My .com child. haha (not really a child) it just makes me feel better saying that. haha knowing you can pull the plug on me any time. hahaha haha haha haha...
Yes she watches me, if not for sport it seems,   but to catch some new God jokes on her. hahaha

 I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

Evilkat88
Junior Member
since 2000-05-01
Posts 37

15 posted 2000-05-16 09:53 PM


Are you ok? I hope so cuase well it would be a shame if you left us. Not many people read my stuff on this and if they do some don't get it but you seem to undersatnd me so you can't leave even though I don't know yow to well you are awsome. Well I hope you are ok.
                Much Love
                     kat

Joel the wolf
Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
16 posted 2000-05-17 12:39 PM


Thanks kid, yea I'm ok, as I've said I'm ok. haha I almost had a supernova for a hood orniment. hahaha. but ok. haha
And you may not know me now but you will.?
not sure where that came from?
just got to go with the flow.
Joel. thanks kid.

 I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

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